Crowds on the hill but only alternatives being offered as Badenoch and Strathspey basks in warm winter
“Unfortunately Cairngorm Mountain looks like this today…”
So reported photographer David MacLeod this afternoon as he surveyed the crowds vying for a couple of patches of vestigial snow.
“So until the snow comes or not, this is it.”
There were plenty of people in and around Aviemore today in the last full-blown holiday weekend of the year - and there were even healthy queues at the Tesco checkouts as a goodly number of cars travelled up Glenmore, but there was no disguising the fact that snowsports were not going to be featuring too highly on the day’s programme.
Instead Cairngorm Mountain Resort accentuated the other attractions on offer:
“Our tubing slides are open today and tomorrow whilst the milder weather continues. The perfect family activity over the holidays
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Meanwhile, postings are appearing again on social media recalling the Big Conversation of Aviemore which lent suggestions to the proposed Community Action Plan which still aims one day to ‘remove funicular railway/get alternative lifting in’ with an all abilities access and perhaps even one day a gondola installation from the Hayfield to the base station.
The debate, like the wait for the last of 2024’s snows, goes on.
